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The Shadow Game
Pawns ... Meant to Be Sacrificed

JOE LANGE
OCT 4, 2023

“This is a follow-up to Clowns in America and School of Assassins and Dictators, an introduction into the seedy origins of the CIA.

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Shall we play a game?

This Q post [4794] is talking about the CIA. The link is about the CIA doing everything they can to prevent the “public exposure” of their treason, through declassification of the evidence.

Self preservation. Self preservation is the most important thing to the CIA. They will do whatever it takes to “prevent public exposure of the truth.”

“Buck the system?” The CIA will not tolerate any attempt by anybody to “buck the system” that they have set up to control things.

What is the “Shadow Game”?

To the global cabal of elites, everything is just a game. They don’t value human life at all. Wealth and power are all that matters to them.

The CIA is often referred to by Q as the “shadow agency.” They have been engaged in a “shadow game” of war, to create a “shadow government,” that controls the entire country in order to control the world. All of it is outside of constitutional restrictions. George H.W. Bush was at the center of it all.

But this shadow government that Bush was creating when he became head of the CIA back in 1976 was about to face someone who would try to “buck the system.”

Who was it? The answer may surprise you. This person is the very reason that Iran-Contra would become a scandal and expose the “shadow government.”

The person who tried to “buck the system” was President Jimmy Carter.

Carter had done several things, that went directly against the shadow government Bush was creating.

I don’t think anybody remembers them.

What was the first big thing Carter did? According to The Intercept:

Bush only lasted a year as CIA director. Ford — who ended up choosing Bob Dole as his running mate — was defeated by Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election. Bush tried to convince Carter to keep him on as CIA director, but Carter’s vice president was Walter Mondale, who had been a leading member of the Church Committee and had already won a commitment from Carter to try to implement many of the committee’s recommendations for reforming the intelligence community.

Carter refused to keep Bush on as head of the CIA. That was a big blow to Bush and I really don’t think he expected it.

What else did Carter do? He ended the use of the CIA training manuals at the School of Americas (SOA) that taught assassination and torture of civilians, because it went against human civil rights. I talked about that in my last article.

What was the third thing Carter did that went against the shadow government? It was something that directly led to the Iran-Contra scandal.

He cut off funding for the Somoza regime in Nicaragua because of its human rights violations. This was a huge deal. This weakened and helped to topple the Somoza dictatorship controlled by the CIA; That’s how the Sandanista’s were able to take control of Nicaragua. This would lead to the Iran-Contra operation designed to fund and arm a rebel army to take back power.

Carter was trying to “buck the system,” and used the power of the presidency to do it.

Bush couldn’t let Carter win a second term. That would derail, or at least hamper the shadow government and global drug trafficking operations he had worked hard to establish over the last several decades. Bush decided to run for president himself. He clearly wasn’t popular, and lost the nomination to Ronald Reagan who was tricked into choosing Bush as his running mate. I talked about that in my last article too.

As Reagan’s Vice Presidential candidate, Bush would be in a position to entrench the shadow government permanently.

How could Bush ensure that Carter would lose the election? The Iranian Revolution became the perfect opportunity. When the Shah of Iran was overthrown and Americans were taken hostage, it made President Carter look weak on the national stage.

Bush would use this to his advantage.”

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“The FBI investigation of the US embassy bombing earlier that year painted a picture of the danger the Marines were in. They were literally left as “sitting ducks” because this important information that would have warned them, was kept from the military commanders by the CIA and state department.

Why? The answer is a terrible thought. Do you want to know the truth? The honest truth? Our troops have been pawns and sacrificed around the world in instances just like this, along with wars, for the enrichment of a global cabal of elites that don’t value our lives at all and never have. That’s the truth.

There were more warnings that were never given to the military commanders.

More from Foreign Policy:

The most fateful signal came in late September. The National Security Agency, which intercepted radio and satellite communications around the globe, snatched a message from the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security to the Iranian ambassador in Syria. The ministry ordered the ambassador to get in touch with a man named Hussein Musawi, the head of an Islamic terrorist group called Amal. Musawi was to turn his sights on the multinational forces in Lebanon and was ordered to mount a “spectacular action against the United States Marines.”

The Beirut airport was the only place to launch such a spectacular attack. The NSA intercept was the clearest indication yet that the Marines sat in the crosshairs. But owing to the cumbersome military chain of command and an inexplicable failure to grasp the “spectacular” urgency, the message wasn’t delivered to senior military officials until two days after the bombing.

They had definitive proof that Iran was behind the attack on the Marine barracks that killed 241 Americans.

Doesn’t that raise a huge question that nobody seems to be asking? If we knew Iran was behind the killing of 241 Marines, why would we be negotiating to sell arms to them just one year later? You know the answer. It was far more important to protect the drug trade through Nicaragua than it was to protect our Marines. It was also far more important for the CIA to be allowed to control the information flowing to the entire executive branch.

They were sacrificed. Why? More from Foreign Policy:

In reaction to the Beirut attack, and a subsequent bombing of the new U.S. embassy nearly a year later, Poindexter led a massive reorganization of the government’s crisis management teams. He formed an alliance with his friend Bill Casey, the CIA Director. The two had developed an honest rapport, and Casey was one of the few senior officials Poindexter felt he could speak to frankly.

The CIA set up a secure hotline connecting the State Department, the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the NSC staff with the CIA’s photographic intelligence center. This was the government’s primary resource for imagery analysis, and yet there had never been any data links into or out of it. That was about to change.

An alliance with Bill Casey, the head of the CIA? What a coincidence!

A secure hotline was set up by the CIA to funnel all information from every government agency involved with intelligence and security through the CIA filter.

The CIA and Bush now had control of both information to the president through the PDB and information to the entire executive branch when it came to intelligence and national security.

Mission accomplished! More from Foreign Policy:

To lead them, Poindexter took over an existing NSC outfit called the Crisis-Pre Planning Group. He turned it into the engine of the government’s antiterrorism campaign, one that was powered–for the first time–by modern information technologies designed to capture information and get it to the people who needed it.

Looking back now, it’s clear that Poindexter was planting the seeds of a much broader, pervasive, and ultimately global system of information gathering. The government was getting a handle on what was in its own databases. It would be another two decades, after the 9/11 attacks, that the intelligence agencies turned their gaze toward the worlds of data held in private stores. On private individuals. Then, too, Poindexter would help lead those efforts, as the director of a Defense Department program called Total Information Awareness. It bore a striking resemblance to the global surveillance of the National Security Agency today, and that was no accident.

The CIA shadow government surveillance state was now entrenched, thanks to a suicide bombing that sacrificed 241 unarmed Marines.

Now let’s go back to the important question: If we knew Iran was behind the killing of 241 Marines, why would we be negotiating to sell arms to them just one year later? Clearly, the CIA and shadow government didn’t view Iran as the enemy. That was just the public narrative that would be pushed for a coming never-ending war on terrorism. They weren’t an enemy to Bush; they were actually a partner.

But Bush still needed an excuse to sell arms to Iran, one that would garner sympathy from both the American people and President Reagan.

What would be the reasoning?

It would become a CIA template that would be used many more times in the future in order to fund our enemies.

Hostages. In my next article, I will dive deep into the Iran-Contra scandal, which was a massive money-laundering operation, and I will also reveal the untold part of the hostages story in Lebanon.”